Lincoln Project embraces AI in latest Donald Trump takedown

Fred Trump AI Lincoln Project
The ad 'complies with current law,' per co-founder Rick Wilson.

Two things are likely enduring in politics.

One is the Lincoln Project’s focus on takedowns of former President Donald Trump.

And the other, per Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, is Artificial Intelligence.

““AI is here to stay in campaigns, and as we often do, the Lincoln Project is going right at Donald Trump with every tool in the toolbox. The ad is fully transparent that this voiceover is generated by AI, has clear on-screen disclaimers, and that the dialogue is our creative take on how Fred would react. It complies with current law, as do all LP ads. Buy stock in the ketchup sector,” Wilson advises in a press release accompanying a new spot.

The advertisement, called “Fred,” reanimates the former President’s father to express disappointment about how he “always knew” that Donald would “blow it” and was “low-rent,” “boring and broke,” and “weak down there.”

“The brand I built is crap because of you,” proclaims the Fred Trump character, putatively responding to a $363 million judgement against Donald Trump in a New York court last week.

“Fred may not be with us now, but in this spot we imagined just how Fred Trump would react to Donald’s record of decades of fraud catching up to him at long last,” Wilson said. “Trump frequently accuses his critics of using AI to make him look bad. We’ve always said it doesn’t take AI to make Trump look bad; Trump does that all by himself.”

See the ad here.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


10 comments

  • Michael K

    February 17, 2024 at 10:29 am

    Hysterical. And a good reminder that Donald Trump inherited a great fortune and lost much of it with a string of failures.

    • The Dunning-Krugers of Florida

      February 17, 2024 at 2:48 pm

      So so true. Should be easily worth $7B if he left Fred’s inheritance in an S&P Index fund…no no the typical Christian ‘I am an expert at anything I think of’ Dunning-Kruger ran strong in this example.

  • TJC

    February 17, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    I don’t like Donald Trump, he’s a sociopath, but I think they should leave his dead father out of politics. This ad will only generate sympathy for the devil Donald.

  • PeterH

    February 17, 2024 at 12:52 pm

    Lincoln Project gets inside of what remains of Trump’s brain!

    • S. Wabbit

      February 17, 2024 at 6:13 pm

      InSmell Inside.

  • Burt Rahavi

    February 19, 2024 at 9:24 pm

    This is a cheap ad. He is running for president and has four years prior record of a successful presidency. Voters of the United States of America can decide for themselves who is best to lead the country
    for the next four years without needing interference from courts, AI gimmicks involving a dead father.

    • MH/Duuuval

      February 19, 2024 at 11:07 pm

      “Cheap ad” — compared to what? Trump’s outright lies, dodges, rants, and threats?

    • Cj

      February 20, 2024 at 7:50 pm

      Trump was voted the worse president of all! How could he had been so good, other than he brain washed people with his lies that he was the best. Cult followers for Trump only believe Trumps lies.

    • bob McDonald

      February 21, 2024 at 12:35 am

      America needs another 3/4 of a million people to die because he (tRump) doesn’t want to spook the stock exchange.

    • B

      February 21, 2024 at 3:29 pm

      NOT a “successful presidency” by ANY measure.
      You’re in a cult. Find a good deprogrammer.

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